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babies could cuddle in and rest as com- 

 fortably as if they were in a baby-car- 

 riage. Here they would ride nearly the 

 whole day, excepting at such time as 

 their mothers would take them into their 

 hoods ; and despite the bumpings of the 

 sledge or the raw cold weather, they 

 would be pleasant and jolly enough to 

 make a civilized baby ashamed of itself. 

 Sometimes, however, the babies would 

 cry with the cold, and have to be put 

 in their mothers' warm hoods to keep 

 them from freezing; but the amount of 

 cold they would stand without complain- 

 ing was really remarkable. And, not- 

 withstanding the bitter exposure they 

 undergo, such a thing as a "cold" is 

 almost unknown among Eskimo chil- 

 dren. 



Every hour or two, according as the 



